Meeting Minutes, October 3, 2017

Rachel Kerchner called the meeting to order at 7:10 pm and welcomed the attendees.

Introduced new MCPS parent portal
Parent opportunity to see what is going on in your child’s classrooms
Same system being used in the middle and high schools so data will carry on from year to year and school to school
Technical difficulties are happening so will be a soft roll out
Can be used for whole school communications

Dara Johnson – VP Programming: Liason between school and after school activities; obtains room permits
Lauren Kline/Chun Dahle – VP Fundraising: Made $600 on first spirit night; Chuys on 10/16;
Farmraiser with pickup on 10/31 but must order by 10/17; Bingo night 3/11 with raffle- can use help asking businesses for donations; new committee for spirit wear
Ellenda Chen – Treasurer: Currently have $16,431.96 in bank
Sharon Avrunin-Becker – Secretary: Working on revamping the Eaglet and PTA website
Adam Lee/Yunfan Deng – MCCPTA Delegate: We give $1.00 to county PTA per adult member and $4.25 to state PTA per adult member; Biggest county hot topic at the moment is finalizing
the 2018-2019 to fulfill state criteria and the county is looking for parent feedback

Nicole Kustner – Book Fair: First week Nov. and will have Doughnuts for Dads and PJ milk and Cookies night;
Need new Co-Chair for next year; With the donations the Media specialist wants to create a STEAM based center in the media center
Nicole Kustner – Teacher Appreciation Lunches: Staff lunches about once a month; will start with 5th grade and end with K; Food can be dropped off night before or brought to school; Dishes will be returned!
Sandra Yesnowitz – Cultural Arts: Already had first author on 10/2 named Marc Tyler Nobleman who discussed the original creators of Batman; will try to have 3 or 4 more assemblies based on budget; Will plan for artist-in-residence in the spring
Wendi Colby – Club Beverly Farms: 10/7 will be the first one; $65 for the year; Food, arts and crafts, bingo, Coach Doug, and DJ; Need 30-35 volunteers per each CBF night; K can start in January
Gaby Massie – Garden: Clean up day in October; 3 co-chairs; 2nd graders grew radishes last year and it was successful; Will ask other teachers if they want to participate in the garden
Other Committees: Skate night, Science fair, STEAM night, Spelling bee, Variety shows, Multicultural fair, Yearbook
New this Year: Need a Bylaws committee to have bylaws updated by 12/3; Need Nominating committee to help identify future board members

Low on funds so have to cut back
If enough money is raised then we can put more towards cut programs like cultural art assemblies and teacher funds
Already paid for this year: Sponsored staff back to school breakfast, Back to school picnic, contributed to Brain Pop and Front Row subscriptions, permits for rooms, skate night booking
Budget was passed

Join the PTA – reward for class with highest percentage of members
Support Direct Appeal fundraiser
Support other fundraising opportunities: Box Tops, Amazon Smiles, Grocery store rewards
Volunteer opportunities and Open Committee Positions – Playground/lunch,Reflections, K orientation, NAACP rep

Meeting adjourned at 8:12pm.